SpeedCrunch 1.1

I've been using it for years and was surprised to see a new version after a dacade.

After installing it, I was surprised to see that the immediate changes most noticeable to me were that the input box was unnecessarily doubled in size, enclosed in an unnecessary border, and surrounded by unnecessary dead space; and that there's now marked input lag that never existed in the original version.

I never had a single problem with 0.12 over the past ten years, and use it nearly every day -- no bugs, no missing features.

I appreciate the desire to improve and innovate, but you know, sometimes, software really is finished.

Huge fan of SpeedCrunch!! Was sad to see the formula was somewhat recently disabled on brew: https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/speedcrunch ... anyone know if this means it could be re-enabled?

I'm using it for a long time already. 1.0 and 1.1 are the first updates after 10 years now?

This is nice to see, and it looks like this release (and maybe some earlier ones?) includes a small order of operations bug fix that hadn't been released for a long time. 1/2(-9.8) now equals -4.9 rather than -0.05102040816326530612. I like how the expression also renders with a multiplication symbol to clarify: 1 / 2 × (−9.8)

List of changes for this calculator [0].

I used to use it quite a bit, but I now gravitate towards numbat instead [1].

[0]: https://www.speedcrunch.org/download.html

[1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/numbat

Love speedcrunch it has been sitting on my taskbar for many years always my go-to for quick scratchpad for equations, etc.

Related:

SpeedCrunch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29661485 - Dec 2021 (131 comments)

Speedcrunch (calculator) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460520 - Feb 2009 (2 comments)

Speedcrunch might finally beat out opening a terminal w/ the R interpreter for me

Why do you do this when you have Pari GP?

What's the best scientific calculator for Android?

Amazing! This is the most useful calculator.. bit shifts..radix conversations...

I've been using it for years after struggling missing the windows 2000 calculator.

I recently opened a github issue about the system UI looking dark. I got a response an hour later which appears to be AI written, I responded to it and it looks like my request has been accepted.

I absolutely do not mind it being AI driven. I have not seen this before in this. The response was not slop, just very formal and verbose.

I use speed crunch almost every day mostly to see bits and bit shift operations visually. It's just strange to see requesting feature, getting an automated further inquiry, and then a response that yeah that sounds good to do.

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I also recently made a fairly complete scientific calculator. I first asked Claude what functions it would put in it, then I made some modifications (added complex numbers), and told it to write the calculator. It looked perfect in one shot. This is really how simple this kind of thing has become.